Getting to Bottom of Ant World

Reforesting the South was big in the 1950s, but a tiny insect that grew in great numbers was thwarting those efforts in western Louisiana and East Texas by stripping pine seedlings of their needles and destroying them.

Foresters involved with the restoring of millions of bare, cutover acres were in a dilemma to control the leaf-cutting town ants and were hopeful that anything discovered could be applied to the region under siege.